Apr 27 Haitians and Syrians aren't only immigrants watching Supreme Court arguments on Temporary Protected Status By Gisela Salomon, Associated Press Many Salvadorans have lived in the United States for 25 years under Temporary Protected Status, which allows those already in the country to stay with work permits. Continue reading
Apr 27 LISTEN: Supreme Court considers case on Roundup weed killer cancer warning labels By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The Supreme Court seemed divided Monday over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer. Continue reading
Apr 27 LISTEN: Supreme Court considers whether geofence warrants for cellphones violate 4th Amendment By Mark Sherman, Associated Press With geofence warrants, police do not have a suspect, only a location where a crime took place. They work in reverse to identify people who were in the area. Continue reading
Apr 22 Supreme Court revives wounded veteran's lawsuit against a contractor over suicide bombing By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for a veteran wounded by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan to sue the government contractor for whom the attacker was working when he built the explosive. Continue reading
Apr 22 Supreme Court rules for Michigan in its fight to shut down an aging energy pipeline By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Michigan in ruling that the state's lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court. Continue reading
Apr 21 LISTEN: Supreme Court seems skeptical of limiting FCC's power to fine companies By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press Telecommunications giants Verizon and AT&T appealed to the Supreme Court after the Federal Communications Commission found they sold customers’ location data without proper safeguards and slapped the companies with hefty penalties totaling over $100 million. Continue reading
Apr 20 Supreme Court will hear from religious preschools challenging exclusion from taxpayer-funded program By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The faith-based facilities argue it's unconstitutional to bar them from a taxpayer-funded free preschool program because of their admission restrictions on LGBTQ+ families and kids. Continue reading
Apr 17 Supreme Court gives oil and gas companies win in Louisiana environmental lawsuit By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The 8-0 procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740 million to clean up damage to the state’s coastline, one of multiple similar lawsuits. Continue reading
Apr 15 Justice Jackson calls out Supreme Court conservatives' pro-Trump emergency orders By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that can “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.”… Continue reading
Apr 10 Federal court hears new case against Trump's latest global tariffs By Mae Anderson, Paul Wiseman, Associated Press The U.S. Court of International Trade, a specialized court in New York, is hearing oral arguments Friday in an attempt to overturn the temporary tariffs President Donald Trump turned to after the Supreme Court in February struck down his preferred… Continue reading